University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Letter from the Dean The principal objective of our Law School is to prepare our students as best we can for the practice of law in Texas. To accomplish this objective, the first and most important aim is to have a first-class faculty. We are confident that this has been provided, and we are confident that our present staff will grow in experience and wisdom and become one of the very best in the country. Another aim must be to provide physical facilities, and while we have been laboring for some years under the handicap of inadequate facilities, this problem is being rapidly solved with the construction of our two and a quarter million dollar plant. But perhaps more important than physical facilities is a student body of high principal, of intellectual ability and curiosity, and with a strong bond of fellowship and close feeling. The originator of the Law School yearbook, Peregrinus, J. P. Tennant, was probably more concerned with the last of the three mentioned factors. Certainly, the idea of a Peregrinus wasthe beginning of a program which has made a definite contribution towards creating a closer understanding among our students. The better acquainted a student can become with his classmates and associates and the better acquainted he can become with the members of the faculty, the greater will be the impact of his Law School experience on his future. A law school yearbook,such as we have in Peregrinus, provides a means of re-establishing and bringing to one's mind certain developments and happenings that have occurred while one was a student in the Law School, and these recollections become more important with the passage of time. 1 doubt that most students rea lixe how important the year book is to the faculty. I refer to it constantly, and in doing so can often say to an inquirer that I remember a particular person well, and can refer to some incident which will make it clear that 1 do. People generally do not remember names too well, but names associated with faces strike the spark that is often needed to bring complete remembrance to mind. 1 want to take this opportunity to congratulate both the present and past officers, directors, and workers on the Peregrinus Staff and to say that 1 certainly believe you have done a great service for the School of Law of The University of Texas. 1 juCt YU Page Keeton